The application of machine learning to accessibility is not new, but as AI explodes in popularity, it’s certainly getting more attention. Auto-craptions are an application of machine learning, and the choice of term I made suggests something about what accessibility practioners generally think of AI in accessibility. But that’s not the whole picture. The problems I see with AI and accessibility are only when it’s used directly on the end product. This is the same as the problems with AI […]
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A day of closures
I released two plugin updates that were a bit painful. The first is for WP to Twitter – and has been coming for quite a while. In this release, I removed support forms and all of the promotional materials for WP Tweets Pro, which I’m no longer selling. I think that the reasons for discontinuing WP Tweets Pro are pretty well known at this point; but suffice to say I don’t trust Twitter enough to continue to develop for their […]
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As you may have already heard, Twitter has announced that they will cease support for free access to the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface). The sole information published about this to this point is a short Twitter thread; if you’ve read that, you know about as much as I do about what’s going to happen. Anything else is probably rumors. There are existing published costs for access to the Twitter Search API, but those are very separate from the rest […]
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My Calendar Pro version 3.0 is now in beta, and in testing. It’s been in the works now for six months. Originally, this was intended as version 2.3; I was expecting to add a couple of features, and then get moving towards the next release. But in developing some of the key new features, I realized that I needed to do some significant rebuilding. The changes are now at a point where I need to consider this a major release, […]
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WP to Twitter was my first plugin. I released it in 2008, as a project originally paired with a Pierre Far’s custom URL (Uniform Resource Locator) shortener, Cli.gs. (Now long gone.) I’ve maintained it steadily for 15 years. In 2012, I added the premium add-on WP Tweets Pro, so that I could afford to continue to update the plug-in. At it’s height, it had about 130,000 installations. That user base has since fallen to about 30,000. The decrease has a […]
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